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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

8,176

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

24

With reported issues

Total Impact

16M

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
55.8%
security
4,563
issues
22.1%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
290
issues
17
plugins
1M
impact
plugin_repo
1,807
issues
18.4%
general
1,508
issues
2.0%
uncategorized
165
issues
1.6%
performance
133
issues
2
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
86
issues
10
plugins
1M
impact
3
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
361
issues
14
plugins
1M
impact
4
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
348
issues
14
plugins
1M
impact
5
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
15
issues
7
plugins
1M
impact
6
slow_db_query_meta_value
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value
11
issues
7
plugins
1M
impact
7
file_system_operations_is_writable
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_is_writable
13
issues
5
plugins
1M
impact
8
strip_tags_strip_tags
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.strip_tags_strip_tags
52
issues
7
plugins
1M
impact
9
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
143
issues
9
plugins
974K
impact
10
NotInFooter
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters.NotInFooter
22
issues
9
plugins
843K
impact
11
plugin_header_nonexistent_domain_path
ERRORplugin_repo
plugin_header_nonexistent_domain_path
3
issues
3
plugins
749K
impact
12
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
1K
issues
24
plugins
629K
impact
13
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
640
issues
23
plugins
626K
impact
14
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
257
issues
23
plugins
626K
impact
15
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
392
issues
17
plugins
546K
impact
16
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
11
issues
11
plugins
532K
impact
17
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
322
issues
18
plugins
523K
impact
18
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
1K
issues
14
plugins
515K
impact
19
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
269
issues
14
plugins
486K
impact
20
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
258
issues
15
plugins
476K
impact